Re: [ARSCLIST] Is there a good history of EMI out there ?

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> It is astonishing how difficult it is to establish correct historical
> facts. I think everyone's mind wants to simplify and romanticise
> whatever happened. Hence the importance of physical, dated documents.
> 
With the necessary caveat..."if/when such documents still exist...?!"
which is NOT guaranteed to be the case...!

Second...it is inevitable, as long as history is being researched by
human beings, that each and every "researcher" will have his/her/its
own opinion(s) with respect to the events in question (the harsh
reality is that the only people interested enough in the situation
to want to create documentation thereof are ALSO the participants
who by definition support certain specific interpretations of such
historic facts that ARE known...?!).

Each and every one of us maintains a personal, and slightly differing,
opinion as to "what ACTUALLY happened!"

Until computers reach the necessary level of internal competence to
keep honest, not-personally-edited lists of applicable events...we
are stuck with accounts created by folks with personal interests in
the stories...?!

Steven C. Barr